APPROVAL SHEET
This thesis entitled “Speech Fluency among the
Criminology Students, An Empowerment Tool for Police
Function”, prepared and submitted by Mervin Albina, Marwin
Diente, Abegail Go, Charleen Pangilinan and Ma. Louisa
Villanueva, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Bachelor of Science in Criminology, has been
examined and is hereby endorsed for oral examination,
approval and acceptance.
ANGELES G. CASTILLO, Ed. D
Adviser
___________________________________________________________
PANEL OF EXAMINERS
Accepted and approved by the panel of examiners on Oral
Examination with a grade of ______.
REX S. APARICIO, MSCrim
Chairperson
LORENZO I. BALILI Jr., MAEdTech
Member
ARTHELO P. PALMA, PhD
Member
Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the
requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Science in
criminology.
ERLIND P. ZURITA, PhD
Vice President for Academic Affairs
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The researchers would like to express their gratitude
for the cooperation and support of their loving parents and
guardians, without their help the accomplishments the
researchers achieved today would be unattainable.
The Almighty God for His constant presence and
guidance, giving the researchers their will and strength to
continue the study. The researcher’s adviser, Angel
Castillo, Ph. D, for lending the researchers a helping hand
and guiding them towards the completion of their study.
Rex S. Aparicio, Ms. Criminology,
Arthello Palma MBA , and Mr, Lorenzo Balili Jr. for their
supervision in insuring the quality of our study is up to
par with the school’s standard. Ms. Arjie Lou Sabatin, for
helping the researchers in their time of need and carefully
catering their need. The V.P of Academic Affairs for letting
the researchers conduct the study. And the Program Head for
letting the researchers have the opportunity and experience
in conducting a study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE i
APPROVAL SHEET ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS v
LIST OF FIGURES vii
ABSTRACT
Chapter 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING 1
INTRODUCTION 1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 3
HYPOTHESIS 4
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 4
THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 13
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 16
DEFINITION OF TERMS 17
Chapter 2 METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH DESIGN 18
RESEARCH RESPONDENTS 18
DATA GATHERING PROCEDURES 20
PROCEDURE OF THE STUDY 22
Chapter 3 RESULTS
PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND
INTERPRETATION OF DATA 25
LEVEL OF SPEECH FLUENCY OF CRIMINOLOGY
STUDENTS 25
LEVEL OF EMPOWERMENT TOOL IN
POLICE FUNCTION 29
SIGNIFICANCE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
SPEECH FLUENCY AND POLICE FUNCTIONS
OF THE RESPONDENTS 26
Chapter 4 SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
SUMMARY 35
CONCLUSIONS 36
RECOMMENDATIONS 36
REFERENCES 38
APPENDICES 40
CURRICULUM VITAE 51
ABSTRACT
Speech Fluency is a skill that is often use by the
people in either their daily lives or in a professional
setting. To understand the relationship of the Criminology
Students in the Davao Central College and their perception
if their level of skill in terms of Speech Fluency may use
as an Empowerment Tool in their study and future professions
a research was conducted.
This research is based on the Theory of Second Language
Acquisition by Stephen Krashen and the Social Development
Theory by Leo Vygotsky. A survey was conducted and later it
was found out that it the two variables did not correlate.
